coL vs. NRG at ESL Predictions

The first map for these 2 for the night and it is Cache. This is a map that the coL boys like to play, as well as some of the NRG guys. Col had their first real good performance on this map, taking down Liquid, in a game where they all looked on point. Since then their results have been a bit less favourable, losing to NME 16-13, beating Vault and then being smashed by Liquid in a game that was a strange one. They had a lot of close rounds, and it felt like froD lost them about 100 clutches that game that could of made the game a lot closer.

We have not seen NRG that much on the map, except for 2 losses, to NME and OpTic, which is not bad as they both love this map, and considering the match against NME went to OT, I would have to guess that NRG are not that bad either on it. Still, I feel like the map suits the boys in coL more than NRG, and with them being the underdogs, and this game a hard one to predict, I would suggest a LOW bet on coL going into this one.

Map between these two teams is going to be Cache and Cache is by far CoL’s best map, they seem pretty consistent on this map as it’s a ”pugstyle” map, this is definitly a good thing for CoL as they do have roca and dephh and these might be considered ”puggy” players.

NRG aren’t as good on Cache. They don’t necessarily have a ”fragger” team, more like a stratbased team and that’s not really a thing that works on NRG. NRG don’t really like playing this map as they never won it.

A really close BO1 on Cache but it IMO slightly favours CoL. They have the better aimers and I expect them to out-aim NRG here. Let’s go low on CoL, they’re still the underdog as of now.